GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| hermetic | of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d. |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| purveyor | one that purveys |
| peerless | matchless |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| quicksilver | mercury |